Noam Chomsky Quotes
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Chomsky, Noam. Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Scowcroft and Colin Powell had been key military and security advisors to President George W. Bush’s father when he was President. The younger Bush had no foreign policy or military experience, and he and his party assured the public that with men like Scowcroft and Powell advising him, all would be well. However, when Bush thought of invading Iraq, Scowcroft and Powell strongly advised him against it, but the younger Bush ignored the advice of these men who had served the nation so well under his father. Scowcroft’s warning could not have been more accurate.
He was referring to the kinds of questions and the assertions made by high administration officials prior to the Iraq War. Pillar was one of the officials responsible for the erroneous intelligence report that Iraq and Sadaam had nuclear weapons.
The George W. Bush Administration told Congress and the people of the world that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction and were about to deploy them. We invaded Iraq and it turned out that there were no WMD’s in Iraq. No one knows if the all in the administration honestly believed the intelligence, how many doubted it, and how many others suppressed contradictory evidence of which there was much. Some members of the administration wanted an invasion of Iraq for other reasons, personal and economic.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
